Animal health body backs bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic

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Animal health body backs bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic

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According to the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), governments should think about immunizing chickens against the bird flu virus, which has killed hundreds of millions of birds and affected mammals worldwide.

Governments have started to rethink immunizing poultry due to the severity of the current avian influenza pandemic, also known as bird flu, as well as the financial and human toll it has taken. Some, including the United States, are still hesitant, mostly due to the trade restrictions that this would entail.

According to WOAH Director General Monique Eloit, "We are emerging from a COVID crisis where every country realized the hypothesis of a pandemic was real."

Since practically all nations involved in international trade are now affected, she suggested that in addition to systematic culling, which is still the primary method of disease control, vaccination would be worth talking about.

The five-day general session of the Paris-based WOAH will begin on Sunday and will be centered on the global management of HPAI.

According to a WOAH poll, just 25% of its member states would permit the importation of goods made from poultry that had received an HPAI vaccine.

The 27 nations that make up the European Union decided to undertake a bird flu vaccination plan last year.

The first EU nation to initiate a vaccination scheme will be France, which spent roughly $1.10 billion in 2021–2022 to compensate the poultry business for enormous cullings. The vaccine program will start with ducks.

"We must make use of other, more modern technologies, like immunization.” At the beginning of the WOAH General Session, French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau declared, "And this, for animal health, for public health, but also to respond to societal challenges."

Eloit claimed that if the EU moves towards immunization, others may follow.

"It will have a ricochet effect," Eloit said, "if a bloc like the EU, which is a large exporter, starts moving in that direction."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a statement to Reuters on Friday that it is "continuing to research vaccine options that can protect poultry from this persistent threat" to "leave no stone unturned in the fight against HPAI."

It started in emailed responses that it still believes biosecurity measures to be the most efficient technique for containing the virus in commercial flocks.

The World Health Organization has stated that although there is still a low risk of human infection from bird flu, nations must be ready for any shift in the status quo.

Bird flu is spread by infected migrating wild birds, according to Eloit, thus vaccination efforts should concentrate on free-range poultry, particularly ducks. According to her, immunizing broilers, which make up roughly 60% of the world's chicken production, makes less sense.

Thousands of creatures, including sea lions, foxes, otters, and cats, have died as a result of the H5N1 strain that has been prominent in the current HPAI pandemic.

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